YP Letters: Reality will dawn in next year for Brexiteers to see folly

I WAS discussing with a friend the steps being taken by Mrs May’s government to cut our ties with the EU.

We both speculated on a scenario where a film screenwriter had attempted to devise a plot about some government plumbing the depths of ineptitude. If our writer simply recorded what has happened in the UK since June 23 in relation to Brexit, and used that as the storyline, commissioning film companies would have simply batted away the script as beyond belief. Put another way – “you could not make it up”.

It is high time that Brexiteers engaged in a bit of intellectual honesty. I warn them, in the next 12 months reality will break in and they will be forced to acknowledge both the cost and the futility of their project.

From: Don Burslam, Elm Road, Dewsbury Moor, Dewsbury.

THE idea that we can just ditch trade deals built up over years without serious consequences is so naive it inspires pity as much as regret. The position is of course complicated by the likes of India, China and elsewhere being able to undercut our competitiveness due to lower productivity costs.

It is true we do enjoy advantages with some quality products, but in the cut-throat business of global trading, it is very ill advised to hand the opposition a free gift through a self imposed handicap.

The Tory Party understand business, do they? They need another massive U-turn to avoid a full scale crisis.

From: Coun Tim Mickleburgh (Lab), Boulevard Avenue, Grimsby.

SO Nick Clegg wants another vote before we finally pull out of the EU. He forgets that prior to the referendum he and his Remain cronies were peddling Project Fear which thankfully the public saw through.

Mind you, I’d have though Clegg would be wary of asking voters what they want. For, as well as being for Brexit, those same people massively rejected the Alternative Vote and his own once proud party!

From: David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.

YOUR correspondent says Brexiteers are motivated by hatred of all foreigners “except the English-speaking countries.”

Many of my very best friends are German. I holiday in Europe almost every year – but I am not in favour of the EU.